Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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MusicBaths – Obsidian
In contrast to the lo-fi, spider-webbed textures of 2010's Cerulean, Obsidian is constructed from solid blocks of stuttering, precision-tooled beats, intrica... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
BooksA Wolf in Hindelheim by Jenny Mayhew
Frau Ute Koenig gave the horizon a searching look with her cool green eyes. Nothing ever happened in Hindelheim, because it was a fictional village in interw... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 27 May
In today's Bulletin: Killer Mike & El-P's Run The Jewels project confirmed at Primavera; new music from Boards of Canada, ADULT., Prince, Disclosure, Earl Sweatshirt and more; rare live footage of The Smiths; a new film by Konx-Om-Pax, and much more... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
FilmCría Cuervos
Three years after her precocious debut in The Spirit of the Beehive, Cría Cuervos (1973) confirmed Ana Torrent a young actress of remarkable... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
Film
Blow Out
"So, you’re an ear-witness to an assassination.” Terry is a soundman working on exploitation films who, out one night in the countryside to recor... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
Film
Lore
Adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s 2001 novel The Dark Room, Lore presents the dissolution of the Third Reich through the eyes of a teenage girl raised in ... Read more »| 27 May 2013
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MusicUK Decay – New Hope for the Dead
Post-punk originators UK Decay are presenting listeners with a new, politically charged effort over thirty years after the release of their first LP. Surpris... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
Books
Anywhere's Better Than Here by Zöe Venditozzi
Shortlisted for the 2010 Dundee International Book Prize, Anywhere’s Better Than Here is the story of Laurie, whose life has met a dead end at jus... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 24 May
In today's Bulletin: cast your vote for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year; new music from The xx, British Sea Power, Shit Robot, The Underachievers, Beacon and more; the return of visionary film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky; plus all the latest trailers Read more »| 24 May 2013 -
Art
Lucy Holmes-Elliott: Queer Window Project
Everyone’s pals with someone who’s queer, says Lucy Holmes-Elliott, it’s just that we don’t always know it. That woman you work with ... Read more »| 24 May 2013 -
Books
The Home Corner by Ruth Thomas
The Home Corner is the story of a young woman cut loose from the airless confines of school and drifting almost imperceptibly from adolescence to adulthood. ... Read more »| 23 May 2013 -
Art
DJCAD 2013: Above and Beyond
Our Art Editor took a trip to Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show and found many students already looking ahead to life after art school Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
FilmThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 May
In today's Bulletin: The Clash to release 5-disc box set; details from the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Scottish Opera programmes; plus new music from Icarus Line, Madlib, Congo Natty and Dirty Beaches Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
Books
Bear Witness by Mandy Haggith
One of the central themes of this novel – Mandy Haggith’s second with a bear in the title – is independence. It’s dealt with on a sli... Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
Film
I Wish
Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows (2004) is one of the saddest films ever made about childhood, but his latest, I Wish, feels like the optimistic fli... Read more »| 22 May 2013